Remember to avoid driving over elephant dung to ensure you don’t squash any beetles! Dung beetles have dark, round bodies, six legs and long flying wings folded under hard, protective covers.

There are three main types of dung beetle – rollers, tunnellers and dwellers. Rollers shape dung into balls and roll them away from the pile. Tunnellers dive into the dung pile, while dwellers ...

Work on Finnish dung beetles focuses on how habitat fragmentation affects the local and regional community structure of dung beetles. Here, recent changes in the Finnish landscape are treated as a ...

The Egyptians made sense of the rising and setting of the sun by attributing it to a scarab beetle, or dung beetle, rolling away the sun, as they had seen the dung beetle roll balls of dung.